King of the Hill voice actor Jonathan Joss has died aged 59 after a shooting in Texas, police have confirmed.

Joss was the voice of John Redcorn for seasons two through 13 of the popular animated series. He had reportedly recorded bits for the show’s reboot, which recently began production for Hulu and is slated to premiere in August.

The actor was reportedly shot multiple times over the weekend after a disagreement with a neighbor, according to TMZ. San Antonio police responded to a home after reports of shots fired and found Joss near the road with gunshot wounds, according to Variety.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.

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    You can find stupid people in every part of the world. Allowing every idiot to have a firearm is only possible in a country that is run by gun dealers.

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      And then they say “GuNs DoN’t KilLPeOpLe”.

      It’s true you can kill people without a gun, just as you can pound a nail into a wall without a hammer. But it’s a lot harder.

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    The wiki article on his death says that the San Antonio PD is saying that there was no evidence of hate crime up to that point, but if this was ongoing for literal years over 300+ incidents, i find that hard to believe. They need an outside-led investigation into that county PD.

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      Is it sad that my first suspicion is that it simply doesn’t meet the local legal definition of a hate crime because the laws are probably written to protect white people only?

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          You still need a PD willing to gather, keep secure and submit evidence that portrays it as a hate crime. The detectives and LEO’s involved may be hiding statements, motives, physical evidence, etc, by simply not recording it as such.

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    If someone burned down that racists home. I would donate to their court case if they were caught.

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            It’s present premeditated actions. From threatening to burn someone’s home down to previous altercations. You don’t get a flood from a few rain drops. A storm comes first before the disaster.

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              E.g. you don’t know and are just spouting nonsense

              The attacker could be American Indian as well for all you know

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                  moron

                  Okay where does it say the killer was racist? That should be easy for a smart guy like you.

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                lol yeah? Should be obvious to anyone who’s glanced at a history book. There was this whole European conquest and genocide thing. You’ve never heard of Hernan Cortez or Geronimo?

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                  Are you saying this Hispanic dude in the San Antonio suburbs is a 16th century Conquistador living in a community of people he hates?

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        Because someone on the internet is asking why/how a racist thing is racist. That’s a clear indication of racists.

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      This wasn’t even the first John Redcorn they’ve lost. Seems like there’s been tragedy through the show’s entire run

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        You try to redeem Texas and Texas says no we really are that bad

        I had a trans friend down there and I lost touch with her years ago when our IRC community fell apart. Miss ya Mel

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    I remember one time I got into a fight (that I didn’t start) and was so scared that I was ready to kill him in case they had a gun. I snapped out of it. But it still bothers me to think about.

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    We live in a society where this happens and it’s just one of those things. People shouldn’t be used to this.

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    I really despise the usage of ‘Argument’ here in the title. It does not do the situation justice. As far as i’m aware this wasn’t an Argument. it was entirely one sided. The perpetrator just walked up and started being homophobic before shooting him. It was a murder and to call it anything less is just being dishonest.

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      This was after someone set his house on fire, which killed his 3 dogs. And then someone took one of the skulls and a leash and set it up where they’d be seen. So when Joss and his husband came back and were mourning, THEN his neighbor came out and started shouting slurs at them while waiving a fun around.

      But no this was an argument between two equally at fault rational people. Definitely not a homophobic hate crime on the first day of pride month.

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        From what I can tell, this region is notorious for gangstalking, especially against gay men. Many of these reports could likely be falsified to justify the idea of killing him.

        I don’t see any inconsistency about the fire if the article itself says that the cause is under investigation. Joss believed it’s possible he made a mistake, but it seems more likely to be caused by the same people that threatened arson, and possibly the same people that murdered him.

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        Thank you for this write up. I had been trying to put this into words for the past couple of days myself.

        Additionally, Jonathan had shown up at a king of the hill panel he wasn’t part of and tried to speak, then was setting up a shoe shine booth outside of the venue? While in Austin he also did a podcast in which he was clearly inebriated and then was asking for rides home on Facebook.

        While none of this excuses someone murdering him in any way, all of these things together definitely give me pause and lead me to not necessarily taking the husbands post at face value. I have addicts in my family and it just seems too familiar.

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    Title is a lie. He was shot for crying over his dead dogs skull being placed near the mailbox of the recently burned down home they moved out of and shot by one of the homophobes who threatned to burn down said house who was also screaming slurs at him, while pushing his husband out of the path of the gun, saving his life. This was ALL preventable but the police force there allowed it to happen despite multiple years of reports.

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      If I lived in America and was LGBTQ I’d be buying a gun right now, and this comes from someone who has always been anti-gun

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        That’s what I’m telling all my LGBTQ friends in the US who are not at risk of suicide. You can’t afford to be neutral in an arms race, especially when the enforcers of possible gun bans are all buddies with the people that shouldn’t have guns.

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          At this point it’s safe to assume every homophobe is armed and react accordingly.

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            But then they’ll just make defending yourself against armed violent and threatening homophobes a hate crime.

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              Frankly I don’t think it would matter at that point since they’ll hate us for no reason no matter how well we behave. Altho, I may or may not have been a little too angry when I made that comment, because after all guns aren’t the only means of defense and I don’t think I want people to have the guilt of killing someone over them, even if it was in self-defense.

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          I’m staying, not because I want to - but because I have a lot of friends and family who can’t afford to, and if push comes to shove, my savings are going towards helping them get out too.

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            I mean I agree with the first part of your statement. He is greatly overestimating the cost of a gun. But a decent piece will cost you 300-500 bucks. Uhauls are 70 bucks a day?

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          Almost everyone I know is broke. No country takes broke people. I could leave any day if I’m only willing to abandon everyone who cares about me

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      He was shot for crying over his dead dogs skull being placed near the mailbox of the recently burned down home they moved out of and shot by one of the homophobes

      Seriously… fuck the US, fuck that country, fuck it.

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        I hate that I’m going to be visiting the US for an MRI soon (I didn’t want to wait up to 9+ months, sadly). It’s only 20 minutes away from the border but it’s still too far into USA. Damn it all.

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        I feel bad for any progressives living in conservative neighborhoods (street city or state)

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          I feel bad for any progressives living in conservative neighborhoods (street city or state)

          The entire country is either right wing or insane far right wing… where else are people supposed to go to live in peace from these insane fascist freaks?

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    An argument.

    The actor was reportedly shot multiple times over the weekend after a disagreement with a neighbor,

    “Ahh gee hahaha just a small little kerfuffle happened, then someone involved in lost their temper and shot the other big sad wow carpe diem or something. No further looking into the situation required, just personal dispute Texas amiright lol.”

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      I remember that one video where some i think uber driver was losing his shit and his hand was on the middle console the whole time. Then he got cut off or something and he grabbed his gun and shot his own windshield like 6 times without even looking.

      When i saw that shit i thought that is the most insane thing ever. Then i saw the reddit comments who went from: what a crazu asshole to: well you don’t know what provocated the whole situation, i think everyone ahould defent themselves. The fact that this guy didn’t go straight to the hellhole they call jail or just shot in a back alley was crazy to me.

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    This is something mentally ill people do. Racism alone doesn’t account for mounting their dead dogs heads, burning down their home and then killing them.